From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 23 17: 4:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4739537B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:04:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A2E43FDD for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:04:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from melange (melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.5/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h1O14PnN065824 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:04:26 -0800 (PST)?g (envelope-from sam@errno.com)œ X-Authentication-Warning: ebb.errno.com: Host melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82] claimed to be melange Message-ID: <1b6c01c2dba0$ad01c5a0$52557f42@errno.com> From: "Sam Leffler" To: References: <20030224001644.GA67255@dragon.nuxi.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:03:58 -0800 Organization: Errno Consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [Please don't CC me on your public replies -- I don't want every message > in this thread to end up in my personal mailbox. I'll read them in the > list, thank you very much.] > > I can now create a sparc64 LINT kernel with the patches at > http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/sp64notes.diff. The essence of this > patch is to split sys/conf/NOTES into NOTES, NOTES.bt, NOTES.ext2fs, > NOTES.ps2, NOTES.raid, and NOTES.syscons. Each /sys//conf/Makefile > now looks like: > > NOTES= ../../conf/NOTES \ > ../../conf/NOTES.bt \ > ../../conf/NOTES.ext2fs \ > ../../conf/NOTES.ps2 \ > ../../conf/NOTES.raid \ > ../../conf/NOTES.syscons \ > NOTES > > LINT: ${NOTES} ../../conf/makeLINT.sed > cat ${NOTES} | sed -E -n -f ../../conf/makeLINT.sed > LINT > > > Any comments before I commit this? If this is taking us down the path of breaking things into module-specific configuration information then perhaps that information belongs in the directory where the code is. I believe there is precedence for this in other BSD systems. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message